The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-01-19
THnrN11MERoUsD DEPARTMENT,
What the Den,zens of Blues Gulley
Think and Say-More OF the SUBS
and the Nest for Nepotism.
BLUES GULLEY
Jan. II. 'S7.

One OF u young men mas JUST 10
turned from Raleigh, whittier he
went to sell a load Of old hens, says
while there he went up to the cap
itol and got a good warm by the
House of Representatives fire. lie
SAYS that all the white men have
colds in their heads and spend most
Of their time in blowing their noses
and sneezing, or running into the
cloak ROOM, while the colored mem
bers looked happy and slick, and
seemed to be enjoying the meeting
that a Mr.. York, from your sec
ton. was leader of the meeting and
seemed happy. From what he
heard, at least six of the twelve sub
departments of the Department OF
Agricultural, will be curtailed. He
heard much about sailing the Alder
marie sound and the building up Of
the departments Of Southern Pines
and Prof. Patrick. Some members
thought Southern Pines ought to be
made a sanitarium, and thought
that "Prof" Patrick and his railroad
partner should do the building, and
persuade as many sick Yankees to
come down here as possible, as the
soil there was suited for burial pur-
poses only, and the railroad got half
of the money, but others thought
that the department Of Southern
Pines and "Prof:" Che says he heard
him called "Prof:"D Patrick should
both be suppressed or abolished, as
the great State of North Carolina,
with it's thousands Of churches and
schools, should not tolerate another
humbug, such as Pilgrim Ashby and
Rev. Bibles got off when they map
ped out the Dismal Swamp, laid it
off in boulevards, covered it with
churches and flower gardens, and
sold it to some ignorant Frenchmen.
All the people in these parts think
so too. That both are arrant hum
bugs no one who ever saw either of
these sub-departments ever had a
doubt, except the Commissioner from
Prot. Patrick's native section.
The young man who warmed by
the fire, says he heard a great deal
of talk about some of the other de
partments, such as the "'The De-
partment of DR.. Battle the ''Com-
missioner" and SThe Clerks" From
what he says, the department Of
DR.. Battle" is the most important of
all the sub-departments; indeed,
that this department controls alfthe
other departments and runs them in
the interest of it's numerous family,
including it's u%ncles, it's cousins and
it's aunts. He heard one man Wits
per to another, that at least nine Of
the family were IN the department
and that the head) Of the family
named all the offices and sub-offices
and devoted about as much of his
time to looking after his relatives in
the department as he did to the
University; that he always attended
1.-THE meetings, though there was a
legal doubt Of his right to seat, and
~was>ready at all times to oppose
everything that in any way tended
to the interest of the farmers, and
to nahe a relative for every office
created, so much so, that the ex-
officp head recently suggested to him
"thAt for the sake of appearances, he
had better leave the nomination to
the Commissioner after he had told
the Commissioner whom to name
for the place."
The Exhibition Department has re-
Gently considerably collapsed, great
ly, no doubt, to the regret Of our
i%tinerant ex-Gov., who, with the
Richmond and Danville syndicate.
made much reputation of it. The
refusal Of the editors of the State to
endorse that $4,000 trip to Europe,
seems to have thrown a damper on
the exhibition department. [ at times
regret the action of these few edi-
tors as | rather think it would have
been a good thing to have shown
Queen Victoria Prof. Patrick, now
that her Gillie Brown is dead, and
to have allowed our Commissioner
to address the Lord Mayor in
English farming in the thirteenth
century. All this would have pos
sibly given the disconsolate widow
joy and greatly enlightened the
noble lord.
The report of the Prof. was beau
tifully printed by the wholesale and
literally distributed, so much so,
that | infer that ever the PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER got one 1t was an
elaborate document apd uoo :, .ro,+